HCL has announced that the company is extending support for COVID-19 care facilities in NCR in order to bolster the state’s efforts to manage the huge number of infections in the national capital.
The support includes assistance in the form of more than 500 hospital beds at various facilities such as the Commonwealth Games Village, Holy Family Hospital, Sama Hospital and Lok Nayak Hospital in New Delhi; and Government Institute of Medical Sciences, Greater Noida Authority.
The IT giant has also been extending its support for critical human resources to treat the high number of COVID positive patients at the CWG facility, by partnering with Doctors For You to provide doctors, nursing staff, orderlies, supervisors, counsellors, lab technicians and administration staff.
At the Commonwealth Games Village (CWG), in partnership with the Government of Delhi and Doctors for You, HCL has also supported the import and installation of an oxygen plant for the facility which can provide continuous oxygen supply directly to the beds.
The CWG COVID facility which was shut in December 2020, due to a fall in COVID cases, has been restarted and was officially inaugurated by Arvind Kejriwal, Chief Minister of Delhi on April 18, 2021.
Recently, the IT company has also announced that the company is shifting some of its workloads from India in order to combat the current situation of COVID-19 in India. The IT major aims to provide tangible assistance to meet real needs on the ground, as the COVID 19 pandemic continues across the country. The company is working with a hospital to set up a facility at two of its campuses to ensure employees get access to healthcare services.
